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2019-2-DE04-KA105-0182632019Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: DE|FR|BG|EL|HR|SE|IT|LT|PT|ES|TR|HU · Grant: €31,537.98
Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learningInclusion - equity

Objectives

Our project was aimed at developing and improving the conflict management competences of youth workers, youth leaders in order to become able to prepare, run and evaluate high quality youth work activities targeting young people with different cultural background such as refugees, migrants, minorities, Roma, etc. according to the principles of inter-ethnic conflict prevention and resolution. We live in multicultural, cross-cultural and intercultural societies. Our local communities are not homogeneous anymore thanks to the free European mobility, the open borders and markets for European citizens, and hosting refugees and migrants from other parts of the world. As youth workers, we have to deal with l different culturality young people whose behavioural norms, values and schemes could be different than the local ones; l young people with refugees background from an absolutely different culture, even still traumatised by their previous life experiences; l 2nd generations of refugees kids who don’t belong to the culture of their parents, however don’t find their place in the culture of majority. Themes of the training course were: Conflict, conflict resolution and conflict management learning for youth workers, youth leaders who work with diverse culturally groups, marginalised young people, young refugees and migrants, young minorities, etc. Throughout the project, beside conflict resolution techniques and methods, exercises and skill - building activities, there were a strong multicultural sense and atmosphere. In a perspective of the Erasmus+ programme, the next thematic questions were presented in this project: -post-conflict resolution and reconstruction -fight against racism and xenophobia -inter-ethnic and inter-religious dialogue. Through this training participants strengthened their intercultural understanding, emphasize empathy and solidarity as a tool for resolving inter- ethnic conflicts and created possible themes for future projects according to the proposals of Erasmus+ programme. The overall aim of the training course was to train youth workers, youth leaders who are directly working with diverse culturality young people e.g. refuges, migrants, minorities, marginalised young people, etc. being able to support the process of promoting sustainable local and global peace through understanding inter-ethnic conflicts. Through this training, participants broadened their intercultural sense, develop communication and conflict management skills and built an awareness of how community problems could be approached and solved through youth work activities. Learning objectives of the training course were: In the perspective of knowledge, learning objectives were: - to define what inter-ethnic conflict is, how it happens and what are its causes; – to recognize stereotypes and prejudices, recall and list them; – to summarize and interpret roles and conflict styles and conflict management in inter-ethic conflicts; – to identify and later contrast personal behaviour regard to stereotypes, prejudices, feeling of empathy, tolerance and solidarity; l to solve communication barriers in conflicting situations and to demonstrate effective way of communicating that resolves conflict; – to explain differences between different countries, traditions and habits, in regard to inter- ethnic conflict situations; – to paraphrase effective communication when giving feedback and use decision-making in the actual group work l to produce and later use research materials; – to interpret, analyze and describe- and later produce a project proposal based on the comprehension of the research; – to state and later describe human rights in inter-ethnic conflicts; – to apply the knowledge of inter-ethnic conflict in simulation or role-play and other similar activities; – to relate theory to simulations and role-plays; – to compare different conflict types in different given situations. In the perspective of skills, learning objectives were: – to detect and identify personal conflict style and illustrate skills of solving conflict using personal communication skills; – to display skills of active listening of the other; – to choose between methods or research and show the actual work, later organize the research process; – to construct an outlook of the project proposal using knowledge; – to show active involvement in mediation processes using communication skills; – to practice different conflict resolution skill; – to practice feedback giving communication skills; – to actively react more efficiently in inter-ethnic conflict simulations, using communication and conflict management skills; – to present daily understanding of the learning material. In the perspective of attitude, learning objectives were: l to have a positive approach towards conflict and being open minded for its solution; l to welcome cultural diversity; l to understand differences and being able for acceptance and appreciation; l to foster empathy and tolerance.

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